2015 Il progetto architettonico e di allestimento del museo del Tesoro di San Lorenzo: la collaborazione tra Franco Albini, Franca Helg e Caterina Marcenaro

2019

Architects are used to being in relationships with museums and are accustomed to planning them and learning how to organise their specific structures. Inspiration can be found in museums, and sometimes the ideas of other architects can be emulated. The rules and solutions usually adopted for museums are based on well-established procedures, with the design contribution guiding and organising the theoretical, pedagogical and scenographic aspects of the space. An architecture is created which is specific and pervasive, and ideas should be balanced between the meaning of this architecture and the valourisation of what we want to bring onto the scene. In this paper, the resonance and vision of the Montemartini Museum in Rome will be analysed as a reference to interpret how the special poetry of this building is generated and how certain parallels can be both a choice and an opportunity in terms of the design of future museums.

Storia della Critica d’Arte. Annuario della S.I.S.C.A., 2019

The Galleria Regionale di Sicilia di Palazzo Abatellis, in Palermo, was inaugurated in 1954 after restoration work by Carlo Scarpa. As is well known, it holds today most of the artworks belonging to the city’s National Museum. This article aims to shed light on the figure of Maria Accascina, taking the cue from her work regarding the ordering of goldsmithery collections housed in the National Museum of Palermo. As the main part of this investigation, a thorough analysis of Maria Accascina’s papers has been carried out, back-tracing her articles which appeared in the “Giornale di Sicilia” in 1937. From these texts, her intention to establish the Museum of Decorative Arts of Palermo in the place of Palazzo Abatellis transpires as well as her wish to organize an exhibition specifically dedicated to this sector of Arts.

Mantua Humanistic Studies Volume V, 2019

Architects are used to being in relationships with museums and are accustomed to planning them and learning how to organise their specific structures. Inspiration can be found in museums, and sometimes the ideas of other architects can be emulated. The rules and solutions usually adopted for museums are based on well-established procedures, with the design contribution guiding and organising the theoretical, pedagogical and scenographic aspects of the space. An architecture is created which is specific and pervasive, and ideas should be balanced between the meaning of this architecture and the valourisation of what we want to bring onto the scene. In this paper, the resonance and vision of the Montemartini Museum in Rome will be analysed as a reference to interpret how the special poetry of this building is generated and how certain parallels can be both a choice and an opportunity in terms of the design of future museums.

Nuova Museologia, 2020

Long abstract of PhD dissertation at IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, PhD programme in "Analysis and Management of Cultural Heritage", XXXI cycle. Dissertation defended on 6 December 2019. Advisor: Emanuele Pellegrini (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca) Co-advisor: Laura Aldovini (Musei Civici, Pavia) Committee members: Ingrid R. Vermeulen (Universiteit van Amsterdam); Donata Levi (Università di Udine)

ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2020

Rivista del Museo Egizio, 2021

The article presents the rediscovery and analysis of important documents concerning the early history of the Museo Egizio in Turin, which are currently held in the State Archive in Turin. The study of these papers shed light on a crucial phase in the history of the museum, allowing the author to retrace features of the display of the statue gallery of the Museo Egizio in the 1850s.

QUO VADIS PROVENANCE RESEARCH? Primary Sources and Archival Collections in post-unitarian Italy, 2024

Il Museo Nazionale Romano, istituito come Museo Archeologico Nazionale nel 1889, custodisce centinaia di migliaia di reperti provenienti dagli scavi di Roma e del territorio circostante, nonché da collezioni private passate alla proprietà statale e da donazioni. Insieme ad essi il Museo conserva gli Archivi della ex Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma che rappresentano una fonte essenziale per la conoscenza della storia delle indagini archeologiche eseguite a Roma dalla fine dell’Ottocento ai giorni nostri e per lo studio delle collezioni e dei reperti conservati nel Museo. Se fin dalla loro costituzione gli archivi Storico, Fotografico e del Catalogo sono stati gestiti in modo autonomo e non integrato, non consentendo di porre in dialogo tra loro i documenti in essi contenuti, oggi il Museo sta lavorando alla realizzazione di una piattaforma gestionale (in parte già consultabile) che permetta di mettere in relazione i dati afferenti alle opere, alla documentazione fotografica, ai contesti di scavo, al fine di ricostruire il legame tra documenti, reperti e contesti di provenienza. Questo contributo intende quindi presentare gli Archivi del Museo Nazionale Romano con il loro patrimonio e il potenziale informativo che contengono, focalizzandosi sugli aspetti relativi alle informazioni che possono essere desunte sulla provenienza dei beni culturali in essi documentati, molti dei quali non necessariamente afferenti alle collezioni museali e che, anche grazie al supporto della piattaforma gestionale integrata, è oggi possibile recuperare.

2012

Proceedings of the conference series 'Museum and Design Disciplines' curated by Matteo Ballarin and Maddalena Dalla Mura, and held in 2011 at the University Iuav of Venice. The conference series was organized by the Doctoral School of the University Iuav of Venice, in collaboration with the Museology of Design Research Group of the University Iuav of Venice and of Fondazione di Venezia.